MOVIE · 1987
The Secret of My Success
ComedyRomance111 min
Fresh out of college, Brantley Foster heads from Kansas to New York expecting a foothold in business and winds up in the mail room of his uncle’s huge company instead. Michael J. Fox is Brantley, an ambitious newcomer who starts passing himself off as a rising executive to climb the corporate ladder before anyone catches on. As the double life gets harder to juggle, office politics and romance start colliding around him. Helen Slater is the junior executive Brantley falls for, while attention from the boss’s wife threatens to expose the whole arrangement.
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